St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-04-30
A MORAL CYCLONE.
Yesterdays Meetings Of the Evan
gelists All Very Largely
Attended.
Sam Jones Admcnishes His Hearers
to Give More Attention
to Prayer.
BE Thinks the Conditions Favorable in
Minneapolis for Big Moral
Tornado.
The Most Painful Death That One Ever
Died He Thinks is Being Preached
to Death.
a Revival Meeting Needs One Good
Preacher and About 500 Good
Prayers.
The Highest Ground a Christian Ever
Occupies is Where God VIII
Hear Him.

ing the unfortunate attitude of the preach
erS and the press. Yesterday morning,
Centenary church was the scene of very
interesting gathering. The people are not
becoming unduly excited. but there is man
ifeSt an increasing interest i'll the meetings,
and no doubt the coming week will
bring many of the characteristics of good
old fashioned Methodist revival. Yester-
days meetings were largely attended, and
the street cars were uncomfortaby crowded
last night by people returning from the EX
position building. In the afternoon Sam
Jones preached. He said:
How many persons here are prayerfully
anxious about the soul of some one they feel
very much interested in? ! will make this
proposition: First to mothers. How many
mothers-and when you stand up l want you
TO stand just moment-how many mothers
are prayerfully anxious about the salvation
of their children? Please stand a moment,
now. Now, Will every father that is prayer
fully anxious about son stand up? Now,
will every sister who is anxious for her
brother stand up? Now, every friend that
feels anxious about some friend of theirs
stand up? Now, every person here that
feels
ANXIOUS FOR THEMSELVES.
that say am concerned about myself, how
many persons? Stand up. Now, every one
of you who feel like you have no concern
about tnis great question of religion, or no
concern about anybody else. just remain
seated. A voice, THAT fetches them up [
wouldn't sit there for my head. I'd rather
my head should be cut off than sit there be-
fore God and man aAd say, II haven't any
concern about my soul or anybody elSe's.
think you had better make arrangements
out there with that eating establish
ment to furnish you grub, and
you stay right here at these meetings and eat,
and then get you blanket or something and
just sleep here. Now we will unite in prayer
that God may bless US. Prayer was here
eff red. Now let US enter prayerfully into
IN 5 service. The service at the Centenary
church this morning was a very promising
service, because there was so much Godliness
in the service. The more force, the
more power there is in this service at this
tSent moment, the richer, the greater the
promise for this evening service and to-
morrow $ service. One of these services rest
upon another, just like one of the bricks in
those was rest upon another. The service
this morning will make this serviGe- in its
possibilities a very rich service if we comply
With the conditions; it is all in meeting con-
litions at last. I was walking up the railroad
rack some months ago in my town with nv
castor. and as we walked along up the rail-
ad track mile or two, he said to me, said
ae: I'VE are going to have q cyclone this
afternoon at 2 clock l suppose that was
abont ten or eleven in the morning when he
made that remark. I said, How do you
is in our face and then at our back and then
10 the right and then TO the left; the wind is
SHIFTING AND CHANGING
and coming from all quarters every few min
utes." Said he: We are going to have
cyclone, sure" Well, said /, have you
gotten out your almanac? He said: "No."
Well, said /, if you can tell how the wind is
going to blow, and which way it is going to
blow and whether the weather is going to be
wet or dry, why you ought to get up an al
manec. and run it sort of that way. ''Well,'
said he, you're making fun of me.
out you will see. He said conditions were
meeting in the atmosphere for a cyclone. We
walked on up the railroad track apiece, stop
sing at my brothers house. and ate dinner;
cot in the buggy with my brother and rode
PACK to town, some two miles. Got in about
ioclock and SAT in the house talking. Pretty
Ioou my brother looked out of the back win
low and said; Look yonder. Look
Tonder." 1t was one of those
fearful cyclones, and looked like the
smoke from thousand and one engines and
carrying trees, houses and everything in its
course. And he said, Now you see condi-
tons met, and we had cyclone" And
tell you people in Minneapolis, just as soon
as moral conditions meet in Minneapolis you
are going to have moral cyclone that will
move this city from center to circumference.
Help us to bring out these conditions,
and when you do your stalvart
sinners are going to fall. L have
seen governors and supreme court judges,
ex-congressmen and senator's as they would
fall down before the power of God, and were
earnest penitents at the alter, and whenever
the power of God hall descend upon US, you
are going to see men in high authority bow
ing before the power of God. l do hate to
think this the most God-forSakenHcity in the
world. believe God is as willing to bless you
as any people. Oh, let your faith go to the
mercy seat in earnest prayer so that moral
conditions may meet, in order that we may
have moral cyclone that will stir this city
from center to circumference. We not only
want souls brought into the kingdom, but we
want the moral atmosphere purified. You
have done very little when you come into a
community and just get 400 or 500 people to
Join the church; what you need is a
GREAT THUNDER STORM,
and with the lightning flash in every corner
and crevice of the moral principles of your
city, purifying the atmosphere. You want it
so your people can walk the streets of this
town and not hear a single biack-mouthed
rascal swear. And you want it so your boy
can walk the streets of your town and
not see the moral forces play upon the
young and old of this town; a moral
atmosphere that is braeing and health
full 10 your boy. Instead of that what have
you got? If you can raise boy in this town
with 800 open-nouthed saloons and half q
hundred gambling hells, and scores of lewd
houses: if you can rear him in this sort of a
darkness that are playing with all their forces
upon your children. You know that. And
how people can sit down quietly and look upon
these things, and see these things playing upo,,
your children and neighbors, and just pass
along year after year and never say anything
about tit is the profoundest mystery to me.
never could be silent about barrooms.
never could be silent as long as there is one
in town and have to raise my children there,
and know these things are hurtful and
harmful to my children You are almighty
careful about your sanitary features. You
can get out tin horn aud make more
fuss than the whole city of Minreap-
oils when it comes to the idea that yellow
fever or cholera are being brought in by the
lack of sanitary features being looked after
Oh, how easy it is to stir the people on this
question: but when it comes to the moral at
mosphere we seem TO be perfectly Indifferent
and careless about the whole question Just
as certain rs "n unclean city will produce
Z:ic-era AMI yellow fever just that certain
will au une1ean city reduce your boys into
drunkards and debauch your daughters
One is just as true as the other. Suppose
there was sewer in this town emitting its
FUMES OF DEATH
upon everybody that is within half mile of
it, this city would invest $780, 900 tomorrow
to rid itself OF that fearful sewer And, oh.
my brother, how much are we putting into
the moral renovation and moral sanitary
features of our city? Let us wake up on this
question. / said to the people Of my town
when l was preaching some time ago
that I wanted everybody in Carters
sight; have great deal bigger job than